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At the [~31:45] (https://youtu.be/x2BQyZorSQc?t=1905) mark of the Why Files video on crop circles, AJ talks about electrical engineer Nikola Romanski who tried to build a device assuming crop circles are blueprints. Life imitates art of Carl Sagan's Contact [book] (https://www.amazon.com/Contact-Novel-Carl-Sagan/dp/1501197983) and [film] (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/). What's particularly interesting is that just like the film, when their attempt failed, they find someone else, [Nassim Haramein] (https://nassimharamein.com/) has also embarked on building this machine. I applaud and am in awe of these efforts to make sense of the crop circles, and am reminded of Vallee.

Excerpt from [Wired article on Jacques Vallee] (https://www.wired.com/story/jacques-vallee-still-doesnt-know-what-ufo…)

To what end? Vallée couldn’t say, any more than he could tell you the sound of one hand clapping. In his view, absurdity is an essential feature of the phenomenon. It fatigues the rational mind because the rational mind cannot ken it. As he put it to me recently, sometimes the phenomenon behaves like a dolphin: It plays with us. “It’s a lot smarter than we are, and it uses humor at another level,” he said.